Hanukkah TV Episodes for Kids

It’s that time of year. The time of year where I find myself dodging Christmas episodes of my kids’ favorite shows. There are some tv show episodes that are exclusively about Hanukkah and many that include Hanukkah along with Christmas. Below you’ll find my list and description of these episodes. Enjoy!

Hanukkah Episodes

Super Why! – Judith’s Happy Chanukah (Season 3, Episode 20)

Available on Netflix

Super Why! is an educational show for early readers.

One of the Super Readers is Jewish! She invites everyone to a Chanukah party and they go into a book about Chanukah to learn more about the holiday.

There is no reference to other winter holidays.

Includes: how to dreidel game, chocolate coins, ingredients to make latkes, story of oil lamp lasting 8 nights

After trying to take a peek at Clifford’s biggest present, he and his cat friends go to their house to take a peek at theirs. Their owner Mr. Solomon is making latkes and sufganiyot. They animals start playing with a dreidel, but it goes out of control and breaks their menorah. Without a menorah, they can’t light candles and get their big big present for the last night. Working together they build a new one. In the end, they’re having so much fun they don’t even want to open their present.

Clifford goes to his friends’ house for Hanukkah. His friend is supposed to only open one present per night, but can’t resist and opens all of them.

Clifford wears a santa hat at the beginning and there are some holy leaves, but there is no other references to Christmas.

Includes: Miracle of oil lasting 8 days, latkes, dreidel, presents

Take Away: Hanukkah is about getting presents for 8 days.

Peg + Cat – The Hanukkah Problem (Season 3, Episode 9, 13:40)

Available for streaming with Amazon Prime. This is the second part of an episode, so you can skip to 13:40, but the first half is not Christmas related if you wanted to watch right through.

Peg and her friends are invited over the Albert Einstein’s house to Hanukkah. They sing a song about Hanukkah and learn the difference between two and three dimensions.

They discover that some animals are fighting and realize they can’t celebrate Hanukkah until they figure out a way for the animals to make peace.

Includes: 8 nights, menorah, dreidel, presents, light, peace

Take Away: Hanukkah is a holiday. It’s important to help find solutions to problems (peace).

Rugrats – Rugrats Chanukah (Season 4, Episode 1)

Available for streaming with Hulu.

Scene flip between a historic telling of the Hanukah story and the babies discovering what Hanukah is all about. They go to their synagogue for a fair and to watch a play about the meaning of Hanukah.

Includes: Latkes, chocolate gelt, synagogue, Torah

Take Away: Hanukkah is about brave Jews who wanted to study Torah.

“Holiday” Episodes That Include Hanukkah

Super Agent Oso – The Living Holiday Lights: Parts 1 & 2

Available on Netflix. To skip a large chunk of the Christmas part, you may just want to play Part 2.

Part 1:

Oso is headed on a train to his headquarters, the trains sing a song about Christmas. We then meet a girl who needs help setting up her Advent wreath, a boy who needs help setting up a menorah, and another boy who needs help setting up a Kwanzaa kinara. Oso is assigned to help the kids. There is a song all about different holidays from all over the world with different lights. Oso heads to France to help with the Advent wreath.

Part 2:

Oso heads to Israel to help a boy set up the menorah for Hanukkah. There’s a song about Hanukkah, lighting candles, eating latkes, and playing dreidel. They put the menorah in the window and put the candles in right to left. They play a game of dreidel. Then Oso goes the America to help a boy with the kinara for Kwanzaa. After, Oso goes home and is sad to be celebrating the holidays alone, until the kids he has helped through the year show up to thank him.

Take Away: Hanukkah has candles like other holidays this time of year. It’s unique for some reasons, but the main character is very Christmas heavy.

Are there ones I’ve missed? Let me know in the comments below.

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